2008/5/16 Steve Richfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Does anyone else here share my dream of a worldwide AI with all of the > knowledge of the human race to support it - built with EXISTING Wikipedia > and Dr. Eliza software and a little glue to hold it all together? >
I'm taking this as a jumping off point to try and describe and expand upon something I have been mulling over whilst reading your messages. I think you and Matt are interested in solving the oracle problem. That is going to one entity for answers to general questions. I am interested in solving more personal problems. That is there are problems that are unique to the individual at each time. The search problem is a good example. To present the optimal search for an individual you must have as much data about the individual as possible. For example if the search engine knew I had been talking to you it would return different results when I searched for Dr. Eliza (assuming google knows anything about your system). As I would not be comfortable with this level of information being known about me, a centralized search oracle will not work (I will have to stop using gmail when AI gets too advanced). The problems essence is finding pertinent information and presenting it at the right time to the user. I shall call it the whisperer class of problems for the moment. I am also strongly interested in Augmented Reality, where knowing when to interrupt you with emails and other communications is an important thing for the system to do. Both types of system are important, I don't think I can do a decent whisperer system with current technologies, including Dr Eliza. Not to denigrate your approach, but to acknowledge that there are more types of problems out there to be solved. Will Pearson ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=103754539-40ed26 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
